Amanita is such an awesome name for a song, and a complete in your face meaning too. Amanita muscaria is actually a extremely hallucinogenic mushroom, when I say extreme, I do mean that, It can kill you your first time using it because they are so strong and toxic, it has been said that eating 15 caps will kill you. This just shows me more that Animal Collective are experienced trippers, and that shines through in their music.

"Casual listeners have nothing on avid online-forum users, who post hundreds of comments discussing solo work and tracking the progression of new songs as they are performed at each subsequent live set by trading bootlegs, interviews and gossip." Sounds like us or CA (mainly CA, but I still like it)!

I live in wisconsin as well. I am still determined to see them. It will be a freekin vacation. I will save up and take off or quit whatever I am doing. I would be happy to give a ride to any nearby goers. I just don't know which date/place is the most practical. Why does vancouver have to hover over the west coast??? Georgia?

yes. this is what they wrote:
Hello, we will be traveling to you this fall.... Dates and ticket info here: www.myanimalhome.net
We will be doing a pre-sale starting tomorrow 6/12. UK/EU dates will be on sale at 9am BST and North American Dates will be on sale at 10am EST. Now we know you aren't all being paid a visit on this first run, but don't worry, it's only the beginning.
See you in a bit, AC
I rarely use FB and don't really like it. But I keep it for reasons like that^.

then he starts parading around the stage like some wannabe rapper singing "up in here! up in here! avey bout to lose his mind!"
then just starts FREAKING out
then things get REALLY cerebral!
and he out coxes the cox!

"I remember saying, ‘This is going to be harder for people to swallow.’ There’s no doubt about it: people are going to react to this. It wasn’t being bummed about it or a critical comment of the music or anything ­— I’m really stoked and I think the record’s amazing, personally. But there was an instant melodic gratification to Merriweather and I think we intentionally made a record this time that is a lot more…um… [laughs] We took a left turn at weird town. For the most part, every song, in terms of the way the record is laid out and the choices we made sonically, is way more challenging. And that’s been verified by every person I’ve played it for so far. People have said they love the record. Friends of ours have said it took them two or three times to even understand it. Merriweather is not that. From the first note of Merriweather you’re like, ‘Oh my God, I just wanna dance’ or ‘My heart’s exploding.’ This is more like, ‘This is amazing but I’m confused and I don’t quite know what’s going on and I think I need to listen to it again and maybe I should turn it off." - Deakin.
"we took a left turn at weird town" this makes me so happy